{"id":48,"date":"2007-12-13T13:07:13","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T17:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/2007\/12\/13\/impressive-doc-black-tar-heroin-2\/"},"modified":"2007-12-13T13:07:13","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T17:07:13","slug":"impressive-doc-black-tar-heroin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/2007\/12\/13\/impressive-doc-black-tar-heroin-2\/","title":{"rendered":"impressive doc: Black Tar Heroin."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSteven Okazaki<\/em> <\/a><\/p>\n

Kim Gjerstad, the guy who helped me get this blog going suggested an excellent documentay: Black Tar Heroin, the Dark End of the Street <\/strong>by Steven Okazaki<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The film documents the life of 5 young heroin users in San Francisco, aged between 18-25 years old who confront all the dangers which heroin dependence often brings about \u2013 Crime, prostitution, rape, imprisonment, AIDS, overdose and death.<\/p>\n

You can see an ex-trait of this film on his website<\/a>. What shocked me was the fact we could see the complete film on the Internet. I contacted Steven who explained that this was not his choice:<\/p>\n

“Black Tar Heroin was shown on HBO in 1999 and re-shown several times since. We have just heard of this pirated version of the film and I hope that we will be able to take it off as soon as possible. Being an independent filmmaker I invest a lot of effort and time in my work, and I do not earn a lot, so this sort of situation saddens me. Also the quality of the image is really bad.”<\/span> <\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

To know more about \u2018Black Tar Heroin\u2019, I suggest you read the article in the <\/span>Metropolitain<\/span><\/a> <\/a>from April, 1999, also the article in the <\/span>San Francisco Chronicle<\/span><\/a>.<\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Steven Okazaki’s most recent documentary: White Light\/Black Rain<\/strong> which reexamines the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as the repercussions. It was presented at the Sundance Film Festival<\/strong><\/a> this year.
\nSteven Okazaki<\/strong> has won many prizes with his films, and an Oscar for the best short in 1990 for the film Days of Waiting <\/strong> . You can read an interview with him on this site<\/a>.<\/a><\/p>\n

(Thanks to Jeanne Pope and Adam Shamash. )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steven Okazaki Kim Gjerstad, the guy who helped me get this blog going suggested an excellent documentay: Black Tar Heroin, the Dark End of the Street by Steven Okazaki. The film documents the life of 5 young heroin users in San Francisco, aged between 18-25 years old who confront all the dangers which heroin dependence … Continue reading impressive doc: Black Tar Heroin.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}